"This Human Rights Day, it's time multinationals pay their fair share", 10 Dec 2015
Not long ago, speaking of tax as a matter of human rights would lead to, at best, strained looks, and at worst, outright antagonism. Yet today…the tax justice and human rights movements are more in sync than ever before in the fight to ensure sufficient, equitable and accountable resource mobilization for human dignity and a zero-carbon future…Almost every day, news reports emerge which show how corporate tax avoidance and evasion deprive countries around the world of billions of dollars in public revenue – money that could have been used to fund quality health and education for all, or for the public investments necessary to prevent catastrophic climate change...[T]his loss of precious financing…also undercuts their redistributive capacities to reverse…gender inequalities…[T]hese abuses limit governments’ ability to regulate companies for their environmental and climate impacts…[G]overnments should ensure corporate tax practices respect human rights law…[H]igh-profile UN officials and bar associations are increasingly invoking human rights norms and principles to challenge unjust tax policy, and company tax abuse in particular...
↧